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I am a mixed-race individual. I don’t care to be more specific, save to say that I am partly White—and therefore not White. Partly something else—and thus not that something else. A bit of this, a bit of that, and thus nothing at all. Just me alone, preordained from the moment of my conception to be a “citizen of the world”.

I was raised in a Progressive household, especially as to racial matters. I was always told by my mother that racism is the worst possible evil; I learned to carefully weigh and judge people as individuals, and avoid jumping to conclusions from ignorance or bigotry. At school, I was given special and quite laudatory teacher’s attention on account of my mixed racial composition. I did suffer a few isolated instances of racially insensitive remarks from other students, but only on the level of kids who…